The Crocker Art Museum's Art and Film program explores how artists, filmmakers, and curators use moving images and film in their work. Each program includes a screening of a short film, video artwork, or digital media production, as well as a presentation that spotlights how this medium fits within or inspires each speaker’s artistic and/or curatorial practice.Â
Still, lft. Fieldworks, 1928, Zora Neal Hurston. Still rgt., Fieldnotes, 2020, Jessica Wimbley
Thursday, January 18, 2024 7:00 PM
Art and Film: Jessica Wimbley
Jessica Wimbley presents a screening of Zora Neale Hurston’s historic anthropological short, Fieldwork Footage (1928) and Sengalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène’s directorial debut, Black Girl (1966)—one of the essential films of the 1960s and one that altered the history of cinema.Â
Wimbley will discuss the significance of films and influence on her video works Fieldnotes, 2020 and collaborative video project Fieldnotes: Califia, 2021 , The Unauthroized Historgaphy of California, Vol. 2: Fieldnotes, 2022 with artist Chris Christion, as well as her video work in the Crocker Collection, The True Story of Edges, 2022
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